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Yeast infections can be treated with over-the-counter medication. Causes The increase in yeast can be triggered by many factors, including taking antibiotics or corticosteroids, or having a lowered immune system. Yeast is not usually...

Alcohol and many drugs reduce inhibitions which can lead to increased sexual behaviors.  If you use alcohol and drugs, consider the following: Know your limits: It helps to know how alcohol and drugs affect you, so you can plan ahead...

Gender identity is how a person sees themselves. It is their own internal sense and personal experience of gender.  Gender expression includes all the ways a person communicates their gender based on societal factors such as gender...

How does it work? Fisting works best when the receiver is already aroused. Warm-up can involve different kinds of stimulation, such as direct or indirect genital or anal stroking, vibration, or penetration. The giver should start with...

Preventing STIs An STI is caused when a bacteria, virus, or parasite is passed from one person to another during sexual contact. Some kinds of sex have a lower chance of passing STIs. For example, the chance of passing an STI is much less...

The term BDSM stands for ‘bondage’, ‘discipline’, ‘domination,’ ‘submission,’ ‘sadism’ and ‘masochism’. It is a broad term that includes many ways for people to use dominance and submission, bondage, pain and other activities for erotic...

What is PrEP? PrEP stands for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis. It is the use of daily (or on-demand) antiretroviral therapy (ART) by HIV negative individuals to lower their chances of getting HIV. PrEP refers to the ongoing use of ART before and...

Sometimes, we have trouble with sex. We might feel bad about sex or have a hard time feeling pleasure. Things like family, culture, religion and the media affect how we feel about our sexuality. Having sex concerns can lower your pleasure...

Introduction This Policy describes the privacy and confidentiality practices and commitments of the BC Centre for Disease Control (“BCCDC”) and the Provincial Health Services Authority ("PHSA") in the operation of the SmartSexResource...

Background More and more women are living with HIV in Canada. This increasing proportion has evoked calls for women-centred services that are tailored to women's needs. In response, a team of researchers, clinicians, community-based...

Background STI/HIV incidence continues to rise, particularly among subgroups of young men who have sex with men. New STI/HIV interventions are being created to address the escalating needs of young men. However, few studies have examined...

Background People with newly-acquired HIV experience very high viral loads in the first two months after infection, and are more infectious during this period called acute HIV infection (AHI). We set out to learn about gay men’s...

PART 2 – Systems and Procedures Traditionally, medical systems and procedures have not considered the needs of trans clients. Some simple changes to existing protocols can make services more accessible and trans-friendly. Procedures in the...

Background High rates of suicide have been reported among people living with HIV, but there is little research that looks specifically at suicide among gay and bisexual men who are HIV positive. Existing studies only look at trends and do...

What’s Online Connec+? Positive Living BC recently launched Online Connec+, a new online video peer support group for people living with HIV (PLHIV) in BC. For PLHIV, feeling isolated is common due to the stigma surrounding the virus, so...

Just in time for International Women’s Day (March 8), a team of doctors and researchers with an interest in global health is launching a video on innovative work being done in Uganda to prevent cervical cancer. “When a Mother...

I’m a big fan of the Somali-Canadian singer-songwriter, K’Naan. As I wrote this post about our community-based research study, the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS), a lyric from...

Who we are The Pacific Hepatitis C Network (PHCN) exists to support the community-based response to hepatitis C in the province of British Columbia, the core of which is the voice of people living with and at-risk for hepatitis C. What we...

Endometriosis is an inflammatory condition where tissue, similar to the endometrial lining, starts growing outside of the uterus. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women and an unmeasured number of gender diverse people. Common symptoms...

Chronic hepatitis C infection is a leading cause of liver-related illness and death. Liver disease and cirrhosis cause more deaths in Canada than HIV. Other Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBIs) can lead to serious...